Reese Witherspoon was told she was 'totally wrong' for this famous role

Reese Witherspoon says David Fincher told her she was "totally wrong" for a role in “Gone Girl.”

Despite calls from author Gillian Flynn to cast the “Legally Blonde” star in the role of Amy Dunne, which went to Rosamund Pike, the director of the 2014 movie adaptation of the psychological thriller stood his ground.

“David sat me down - and this is not on David - but David’s like, ‘You’re totally wrong for this part, and I’m not putting you in it,” Witherspoon recounted on the “Las Culturistas” podcast.

She continued, “I had all these conversations with the writer Gillian Flynn, and she was like, ‘No, I’d really like you to do it.' But he was like, ‘You’re wrong.’”

The 49-year-old actress - whose production company produced the title - admitted that was the first time she'd had an "ego check".

“That was, first of all, an ego check for me,” she said. "It was like, ‘No, you’re not right for everything.’ And he was right. He was totally right.”

Praising the filmmaker, she added, "Fincher just killed it, and Rosamund Pike is so diabolical and Ben Affleck is sort of the rube on the other side of it.”

The Hello Sunshine founder is grateful to Fincher for teaching her the importance of stepping back "when you're supposed to" as a producer.

“Producing also means get out of the way when you're supposed to,” the “The Morning Show” star said. “Do your job to promote, continue to pull people together, continue to build creative groups so that the ultimate result is the best work that it could possibly be. So that was a lesson to me.”